Silverware Basket

Silverware Basket
Any helpful comments about what Consumer Reports says about how to load a dishwasher? (see...?

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The new issue of CR has a list of tips for loading your dishwasher:

1. Load large items at the sides and back, so that they don't block water and detergent from other dishes.

2. Put the dirtier side of dishes toward the center of the machine.

3. Don't let dishes or utensils nest or rest side by side.

4. Use the top rack for plastic and more delicate items.

5. Rest glasses on prongs, so that they stay upright and don't fill with water.

6. Load silverware with handles down, knives with handles up. If there's an open basket, mix spoons, forks, and knives, so that they won't stick together.

7. Don't machine-wash brass, bronze, cast iron, disposable plastic, gold-leaf china, or anything made of wood.

I load all of my silverware business end down: that way I am handling them by the handles when I unload them to put them away. (they still get clean, and I am not getting them dirty again.)

I machine wash product tubs from the grocery store to reuse (like yogurt cups and margarine tubs) (top shelf, preferably weighted down with something to keep them from flipping over)

I do machine wash wood cutting boards and pizza peels (the spade you pull them out of the oven with)

Additionally, do NOT machine wash insulated thermal containers like travel cups. - it wrecks them.

January 21, 2011 | Filed Under Uncategorized

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